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Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #39 Cartel (hexbear.net)
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Cute Russian comic. The home of the official English version is here if anyone wants to skip ahead (or support them): https://boosty.to/gabiconomics-en

A cartel is a form of monopolistic association or agreements between companies that retain their financial and production independence. Those agreements can be about laying down exclusive spheres of commercial influence, sale terms, product diversity, trade volume regulation, pricing etc.

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[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

love that the cat tail looks like a halo in the last frame lmao

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can hear his voice, eccentric, pitch going up towards the ends of sentences.

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

regrettably this is my type in games a lot

i can fix him

[–] Des@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

i normally like cats but i hate that guy's cat it's such a little smarmy asshole in an uncat-like way

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

eepy-comrade-sphynx would never be a snitch

ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

"Little Birdie"

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

One would hope

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How does everyone have the emojis for this comic in this thread? Are y'all manually copying them from somewhere?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah i think they were submitted to the emoji comm but waiting on someone to get around to implementation. I don't know how that works though.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think Edie might have actually added some to Hexcat, but I copy/paste things I’ve uploaded previously.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

what is hexcat

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Edie started to run an instance: https://lemmy.encryptionin.space/

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 2 points 2 days ago

hexcat

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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're a landlord now! You get to collect a part of the profit of the wheel-shop with none of the managerial work! Why are you trying to dictate terms? Take the W, dude

I swear even fictional bourgeoisie can't just leave well enough alone

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well he still runs the wheel shop across the street so presumably he's concerned that such competitive salaries might give his other workers.... Ideas.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

“Ah yes, I’ll gladly take a pay cut to benefit capital” hopefully-more-class-conscious-than-falke-with-brown-hair